Addressing-machine



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R. DICK. ADDRESSING MAGHINE. Patented Dec. 3,.1889.

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ROBERT DICK, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,582, dated December 3, 1889.

Application filed August 6, 1887. Serial No. 246,285. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT DICK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of NewYork, have invented new and useful Improvements in Addressing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in addressing-machines; and it consists, substantially, in such features of construct-ion, arrangement, and combinations of parts as will hereinafter be more particularly described or pointed out.

The invention is designed more particularly as an improvement upon the class of addressing-machines for which Letters Patent No. 170,068 and 297,116 were granted me on the 16th day of November, 1875, and the 22d day of April, 1884, respectively; and the objects of the present invention are to so construct the motor-arm of the machine audits connection with the spring-lever of the vibrating blade, together with its attachment to the'side of the machine, as that said connection between said spring-lever will be rendered less rigid and the distortion of said arm prevented; further, to render more certain and effective the automatic lifting or raising of the vibrating blade, so as to permit of the regular passage or projection of the addresses adhibitedh Finally, the invention has for its object to obtain a horizontal hinge-like action of said motor-arm, so as to readily permit of the same conforming without strain to the movement necessary to a free and perfect action of the several parts, all as will more fully hereinafter appear, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of an addressing-machine embodying myimprovement, and Fig. 2 is a top or plan View of the motor-arm detached. Fig. 3 is a front view of the vibrating blade, together with its spring-lever.

In order to illustrate my present improvements, I have shown in these drawings a machine that in most of its details resembles the machines covered by my former Letters Patent referred to, and wherein A represents the shell of the machine, having the usual web-reel O and the thumb-feed E, and also having the vibrating blade D and the stationary blade E, Z representing the shield surrounding an opening (not shown) communicating with the interior paste-reservoir of the machine.

In carrying my present invention into efiect I form the motor-arm K of a suitable length, and preferably of No. 5 wire, the rear end of which arm I form into a spring T of a sufficient number of convolutions, having its end terminating with a hook or staple P, designed to fit and work within a socket P, formed with or secured to the side of the shield Z, as shown. The forward end of the motor-arm is extended slightly beyond the vibrating blade, and is bent at right angles to lie in a plane parallel to said blade when the latter is brought down or depressed, (see, for instance, at Y, Fig. 2.)

Rigidly secured to the motor-arm, at a suitable point thereof, is what I term a rear fulcru'm Y, having its rear portion bent at right angles, as shown, and having its forward end bent into a curved neck S, formed with a shoulder or collar L, the end of which neck fits into the eye M of the spring-lever L, which operates the vibrating blade D.

In the use of the machine the hinge-like action of the rear end of the motor-arm will permit said arm to better conform to the action of the springlever of the vibrating blade, and by the construction and arrangement shown the labels can always be evenly placed without having to alter the connection between said motor-arm and spring-lever, because if the attachment of the rear end of the motor-arm to the machine were rigid the tendency would be to distort the connection between the forward end thereof and the spring-lever.

WVere it not for the rear fulcrum it would be impossible to adhibit labels on the extreme upper margins of printed sheets, because it is necessary that a fulcrum or working bearing should be had sufficiently below the bot- It will be very apparent to the skilled observer that the forward fulcrum is of no use when the labels are being adhibited on the uppermargins 0f the sheets, because the same being in advance of the blades will project beyond the pile of sheets; but in adhibiting labels 011 the lower margins of the sheets the said forward fulcrum still acts just the same as when the labels are adhibited on the sheets within their margins. In otherwords, it may be stated that the rear fulcrum herein referred to is employed for the sole purpose of enabling the labels to be adhibited on the extreme upper margins of sheets or Wrappers.

In order to maintain the proper connection of the rear end of the motor-arm to the side of the machine, I have provided a lug V, projecting from the side of the shield Z, which lug acts to prevent the hook or staple P from slipping out of the socketP while the machine is in operation or use; but when it is desired to detach the motor-arm from the machine all that is necessary to do is to disconnect its forward end from the springlever L and swin g the same outwardly, whereupon the staple can be lifted from its socket free of the lug.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. In an addressing-machine of the character described, the motor-arm having its forward end bent at right angles and its opposite end bent into a spring terminating with a hook or staple, and having rigidly secured thereto the rear fulcrum, having its rear end bent at right angles and its forward end bent into a curved neck, substantially as set forth.

2. In an addressing-machine of the character described, the combination,with the shell A, having to one side a socket and lug, of the spring motor-arm bent into a hook or staple at its rear end to fit said socket, substantially as described.

ROBERT DICK.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES SANGSTER, ARTHUR SANGSTER. 

